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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy
Houseboy, I suggest you read Animal Farm, it is a very good analogy of Socalism.
As it happens, I am all for Socalism just as long as we all can wear Rolex wrist watches, drive Porsche 911 Turbo's have nice houses etc etc.. Oh hang on that's not allowed.
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Read it several times, one of my favourite books. It's not an analogy of socialism though, it's an analogy of Stalinism, a completely different beast.
I long since realised that human nature makes true socialism very difficult to the point of impossibility, but the basic principles of socialism can and should be adopted to counter the sheer greed and selfishness that come from unfettered capitalism.
If it weren't for socialism (and the unions) we would still all be working for sixpence a fortnight, living in crap housing provided by an employer who could then make you homeless if he decided to sack you for being thirty seconds late. He could then fine you half a weeks wages for making an honest mistake at your job, put your five year old child to work, make you work twelve hour days, six days a week and even sack you for not attending church on your one day off. The wages would be so poor that your wife may have to go on the game to subsidise your pitiful income, subjecting herself to the whims of people like your employer, who is one of the few who can afford anything at all. Said wife would not, of course have a vote either.
If anyone thinks that this is a flight of fantasy please take a short course in sociology at any college and you will find that this was life in Victorian times, envied so much by Thatcher.